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Your AI Problem Was Already Your Leadership Problem - Michael Hunter
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- A Beginner's Guide to AI
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- Aug 18, 2026
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Summary
🤖 AI leadership is being stress tested everywhere right now, and this episode argues that the stress is mostly diagnostic. Michael Hunter, author of The Resilient Tech Leader , describes resilience as a practice rather than a trait. We start out curious and exploratory, he says, and then get compacted by work, family, community and every other system until layers cover who we actually are. His work is about sorting through those layers and asking which ones still serve you in this specific context. 🧩 On AI, his position is unusually calm. Whatever proportions of joy, frustration and fear the technology is raising for you, most of it was already there. AI made it visible because it does not behave like the people we are used to reading. The practical core of the conversation is delegation. Track what you do, note how you feel about each task, look for what you consistently dislike, then ask whether it goes to a person, to an AI, or off the list entirely. And before you delegate, ask why you dislike it, because sometimes the answer sits in a fourth grade classroom rather than in the work itself. What you will take away: 🔍 Why AI amplifies existing dynamics instead of creating new ones 🪜 The smallest possible step method for change that actually starts 🧵 Why borrowed frameworks need tailoring before they help ❓ Why "can AI do this" is the wrong question 🤝 What trust, vulnerability and reading people still contribute Best for engineering managers, founders, consultants, marketers and executives leading teams through constant change. Newsletter Anyone? 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes. Don't forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: https://beginnersguide.nl 📧💌📧 About Dietmar Fischer Dietmar Fischer is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want help wi…